June 2015
Volume 56, Issue 7
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   June 2015
Whole-exome sequencing in patients with STGD (ABCA4)-like phenotypes
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Yajing Xie
    Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Winston Lee
    Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Stephen H Tsang
    Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Gerald A Fishman
    The Pangere Center for Hereditary Retinal Diseases, The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired, Chicago, IL
  • Frederick T Collison
    The Pangere Center for Hereditary Retinal Diseases, The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired, Chicago, IL
  • Rosa Riveiro-Alvarez
    Department of Genetics, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria-University Hospital Fundacion Jimenez Diaz (IIS-FJD), Madrid, Spain
  • Carmen Ayuso
    Department of Genetics, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria-University Hospital Fundacion Jimenez Diaz (IIS-FJD), Madrid, Spain
  • Tomasz Gambin
    Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
  • James R. Lupski
    Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
  • Rando Allikmets
    Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships Yajing Xie, None; Winston Lee, None; Stephen Tsang, None; Gerald Fishman, None; Frederick Collison, None; Rosa Riveiro-Alvarez, None; Carmen Ayuso, None; Tomasz Gambin, None; James Lupski, None; Rando Allikmets, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science June 2015, Vol.56, 2863. doi:
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      Yajing Xie, Winston Lee, Stephen H Tsang, Gerald A Fishman, Frederick T Collison, Rosa Riveiro-Alvarez, Carmen Ayuso, Tomasz Gambin, James R. Lupski, Rando Allikmets; Whole-exome sequencing in patients with STGD (ABCA4)-like phenotypes. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2015;56(7 ):2863.

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Abstract

Purpose: To determine the genetic cause of the disease in patients where clinical diagnosis was compatible with ABCA4-associated phenotypes (Stargardt disease, cone-rod dystrophy, bull’s eye maculopathy and atypical arRP), but where no two disease-associated ABCA4 mutations were identified.

Methods: Detailed medical history and ophthalmic examination, including fundus photography, autofluorescence imaging, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and, in some cases, ISCEV-standardized electroretinography, were performed on all patients. The ABCA4 gene was screened in all affected individuals with negative results. Subsequently, affected and available unaffected members from each family and sporadic cases were subjected to whole exome sequencing (WES) on Illumina platform. Possibly disease-associated variants were determined by filtering based on minor allele frequency and predicted pathogenicity. Variants were verified by Sanger sequencing followed by segregation analysis.

Results: Ophthalmological examination identified 40 families and 26 sporadic cases with phenotypes compatible with STGD (42), CRD (6), arRP (3), and with BEM (15) all of whom harbored no or one disease-associated ABCA4 mutations after initial analysis. In total, 141 individuals were subjected to WES analysis. The definite causal gene was identified in 22/40 families. Analysis of 15/40 families resulted in several candidate genes, while no plausible candidate was found in 3 families. Of the 26 sporadic cases, 12 were solved, 9 had multiple plausible candidate genes, and 5 were impossible to solve. The causal genes for the solved cases belong to the following categories: 1) phenotypic expansion in known retinal disease genes (11 cases; CRB1, CRX, etc.); 2) revised clinical diagnosis or ambiguous phenotypes (12 cases; RS1, PRPH2, RP1L1, etc.); 3) new non-coding or re-assessed mutations in ABCA4 (7 cases); 4) new genes (RDH11, RAB28) in 3 families; 5) unusual clinical outcome, MMACHC, in one case.

Conclusions: Whole-exome sequencing identified the causal gene in >50% of cases with phenotypes compatible with ABCA4-associated diseases. The genetic causes of ABCA4-like phenotypes range from new genes to unusual clinical manifestations of known genes.

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